Projectbeschrijving
TH4-100 is a project designed in collaboration with 8 section communities in the Makarie Gbantie Chiefdom of Bombali district (North of Sierra Leone). The project was designed during several workshops. The aim of the project is to support and provide opportunities for most underprivileged and impoverished orphan girls.
The girl-children in this locality (Makarie Gbantie Chiefdom of Bombali district) are disadvantaged, poor and don’t have love and proper care of parents as they are orphans from 5 to 16 years old. Their lives are extremely difficult: badly polluted surroundings; no tap-water, electricity. The children are badly malnourished and illiterate, have to collect rubbish, sell collected fruits, vegetables, lottery results or fetch dried woods to sell for their living or being given over to early marriage for survivals. Their guardians live on the soil for their living – subsistence farming. They have never gone to school and the girls in the community near 95% haven’t known words, not all of them have joined in any officially vocational training before. The orphans have a very poor family or no family and they speak Temne and poor English.
There is a newly built school at Mathinka. These children come to the YIC School from 8 community sections. Their guardians don’t have money to pay for their school but will be willing to do tailor-made self-help Projects that will lift them out poverty from meetings held with them. The orphan kids need help completely seeing the condition and situation in which they are living.
ChildHelp will reach out to these 8 section community with over 3500 populace, to identify those in desperate need, living in difficult life situations in collaboration with the Local Authorities and District Council responsible for the Welfare of children.
ChildHelp wants to organize training for the guardians in project management, in computing, internet and business keeping and in Mobile phone SMS service to help them start up a business and generate income to take better care of the orphans.
2 orphan girls will be employed on internship and paid positions as Business Coordinators within ChildHelp to help the guardian’s plan their projects well, provide content and run business workshops during the project period. The interns will give groups coaching/trainings and sensitization on the project strategy on run and manage a small scale project that will help their children to go to school.
After the training, 4 groups of totally 40 guardians, would be set up and be given seed cash as their own at the amount of four Million five and hundred thousand Leone (4,500,000) per each group for the purpose of setting of a private profitable small scale business project on their own. This money given will be the start of an income generating activity – a revolving loan within their groups that will lift them out of poverty, under the supervision of ChildHelp. Each group will be given a name, with photos taken, prepare documents for each, by-laws, an open a saving accounts. A bank account opened with 3 signatories for project viability and accountability of use of funds.
This project is completely focusing on income generating activities. The seed money given to the guardians will be used for their identified projects and a management or committee would be set. Each group agrees with ChildHelp’s policy in which one of its priority is to care for their children’s education up to University level. The ChildHelp training team would train the groups in computing, simple business skills and project management: Executing and controlling, give assistance in drafting, negotiating and executing contracts. Each group will hold meetings to share their activities with others and get understanding.
Guardian will:
• meet once a week in their groups and once a month in their forum, to update issues of concern and explore of business development, leadership, socio-economic change, agents of change, activism and feminism through stories, reflections and dialogue, breaking their isolation, building on their social capital and expanding their roles as community anchors with the capacity to foster knowledge, courage and self esteem and leadership.
• sensitize parents and communities on the value of girl-child education,
• engage boys and/or young men up to age 24 who can be influenced to adopt more gender-equitable attitudes and practices, promoting equitable gender norms and behaviors that contribute to the empowerment of girls,
• Involve parents of girls in supporting girls education, delayed marriage, peer interaction and access to community resources.
• Target school teachers directly or work through broader community-based behaviors (Teachers are critical gatekeepers. As agents of socialization they can either perpetuate or challenge gender norms and thus help determine the educational and social success of girls).
ChildHelp will sign an agreement with groups to be committed to build self-reliance, live a corporate lifestyle with good financial base that would lift them out poverty. Every project profit should be shared equally which 40% while 60% will be plough back in to their project to increase financial base. Continuously, they will end up by becoming big business people, with a surprising income to take care of even other children, and undertake other projects that will bring development in their communities and replicate it in other communities at large. Guardians will now be able to pay school fees, provide education items and good food and lives.
For this to be effective there would be linkages and partnerships. Key players in this process will be Representatives from ChildHelp Sierra Leone, community committees, ward committee members, the Councilors, Officers of the Line Ministries, the District Councils and other development partners working on community orphanage project.
Project doelstellingen
To empower guardians with revolving loan that would generate income for them, which will be used for their child’s education, improve their health lifestyles and be lifted out of poverty.
Project doelgroep(en)
100 Orphan Girls ageing 5-14 years within Mathinka 9 Communities + 40 Guardians.
Op welke manier draagt het project bij aan het oplossen van armoede?
Money will be made available for the girls when they graduate through projects ongoing and profits made. The business project all the four group have identified such as Bike Motor transportation, gardening, provision shop and cultural gara-tye dying clothing are all priftable and would make them more money that would generate income to be independent and take care of their orphan-girls. Each group will make lot of money according maketing surveys and need assesment done. This generated income will help their kids and more go to school upto university level.
There is no motorbike transportation, no provision shopping, cultural gara-tye dying cloth and gardening activities going on in this vicinity. MotorBile transportation from end to end within the Maken cosy One thousan leone (1,000 Leone). The availability of a Provision shop will stop community people to go far distance to buy rice, salt, sugar, flour to make cake and bread, books, pens and pencils. Cultural Gara-tye dying is expensive and are always attractd by visitors or peacecorps from overseas. Gardening if Urban can generat more income as goods harvesting can be sold at the market raw which is very vital for human consumption. This we believe at ChildHelp will help the guardian which will turn into a BIG IVESTMENT. Big investment brings in big income.
Duurzaamheid
During the lifespan of the project, ChildHelp will do its level best to introduce foster parenting. Children will be linked to foster parents who in turn will be providing support to the children at the end of the lifespan of the project.
